Nakumatt Holdings officials clarified that Nakumatt is a tenant and does not owe Nairobi County any land rates. Business was only disrupted by the slight commotion outside. No doors were closed as Kenyatta University officials swiftly managed to confirm that the rates had been paid in January 2016.

The Nakumattt branch was unveiled in 2010 in a bid to clinch shoppers within the Central Business District (CBD). It was the fifth Nakumatt supermarket in the CBD. The Nakumatt store was previously Woolmart which Nakumatt acquired in March of 2010.